The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 73
here to my great astonishment, I saw through the glassside of the building a glass tank containing perfectly clear water,with some aquatic plants growing in it (I have since learnt to callthe plant ValUsneria), and, wonder of wonders, a living pike ! I wish I could write what I then felt; I wish I… … Fig. 2. THE FISH-HOUSE AT THE ZOOLOGICAL GAEDENS. the building, and the tank has been years ago converted intoa marine one), but I went to it again, and remained there till itbegan to grow dusk, and it was time to get home. In returning, I thought of all the odds and ends I had read offish against…
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